Knowledge of the presence of plants’ sensing abilities powered by their signalling systems is limited except amongst specialist plant biologists. But recently COOP, the Swiss supermarket chain who are leaders in providing organic produce from apples to cotton t-shirts, introduced their COOP magazine readers to facts about how plants perceive their environments. The article “The [...]

News of the recent death of Sydney Brenner, a renowned molecular biologist and enthusiastic conservationist, lead the team at Vivent into a long conversation on ethics and science. At Vivent, the ethical implications of our work are important even if we can’t always draw firm conclusions about best approaches. Our recent discussions centered around the [...]